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May 4, 2009

changes for the Richmond Folk Festival

The RTD has an article today on how the Richmond Folk Festival on Brown’s Island is coping during a slow economy. Despite a significant budget cut, the event taking place October 9-11 will still be free and full of activity.

Posted by jacqui at 12:22PM under arts&entertainment | Tags:

8 Responses to “changes for the Richmond Folk Festival”

  1. posted by Stuart at May 4, 2009 4:54 pm :

    “The Richmond Folk Festival does have a new sponsor in CenterStage, which will open its doors downtown about a month before the folk festival.

    Sue Fitz-Hugh, head of the development committee for the CenterStage Foundation, chose not to disclose the amount that the organization is providing.

    But CenterStage will have a sponsored stage, which requires at least a $50,000 donation.

    “The festival offers free first-class folk music — we’re helping to support free performing arts in Richmond,” she said.

  2. posted by Stuart at May 4, 2009 4:57 pm :

    Neither FOIA nor RT-D can get CenterStage to tell us how they spend our tax money.

  3. posted by Jeff E. at May 4, 2009 7:50 pm :

    Bummer to hear this. Of all the stages to be removed, I hope they take out the large one that is usually set up near the top of the hill, close to the Virginia War Memorial. Of all the stages that one is the most impersonal. I enjoy the smaller stages much more.

  4. posted by Scott Burger at May 5, 2009 7:46 pm :

    I like the free Folk Festival but I am appalled by Center Stage. Why don’t we get rid of the middleman and just give the portion of the insanely high meals tax directly to Folk Festival instead of Center Stage?

  5. posted by Paul_h at May 6, 2009 5:25 pm :

    You guys need to get a life. The Richmond Folk Festival is cool, awesome, fantastic and otherwise great. Get off your GD Centerstage rant and get on board with VR and put on the best festival every. This event is as good as you make it. 175,000 came last year proving people will come downtown if you give them a reason.

  6. posted by Scott Burger at May 7, 2009 12:13 pm :

    This has absolutely nothing to do with those 175,000 people at the Folk Festival. This has to do with how Center Stage is wasting City taxpayer money, which should be a concern of real conservatives everywhere.

    There needs to be a full investigation of Center Stage.

  7. posted by Stuart at May 7, 2009 1:40 pm :

    Yes Paul, I love the Folk Festival too and I’ve enjoyed it every year since they started it. The issue isn’t whether or not the festival is great.

    The issue is why we need to raise a tax to pay off a shadowy cabal so they can build their brand image off the success of other, unrelated events. The CenterStage “arts” racket is an extremely corrupt use of public money. I put “arts” in quotes because CenterStage has done NOTHING for the arts in this town. Despite its purported reason to exist, it is a real estate scam and nothing more.

  8. posted by Paul H at May 7, 2009 10:18 pm :

    The headline and story I read was “the event taking place October 9-11 will still be free and full of activity”

    I thought that was the issue, not CenterStage. THAT is worth celebrating and no reason to hijack the conversation. Jump in, volunteer and stop complaining.

    Fat chance.

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